by our College Data Analytics TeamEach year, College Factual releases its Best Quality Schools ranking to identify graduate schools that offer a great educational experience and provide excellent student outcomes. Our methodology places a high weight on things such as post-graduation wages, time to graduate, and student-per-faculty ratio. Post-graduation debt, faculty and staff diversity, and other factors are also taken into account.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., DePaul University landed the #135 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list. So, the school sits firmly among the Top 15% of colleges and universities in the nation when it comes to overall quality. As a result, DePaul is a recipient of this year's Best Master's Schools badge.
In addition, DePaul took the #6 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Illinois.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and DePaul took the #414 spot on the list.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Illinois, DePaul came in at #22.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 56.0% of the total graduate students at DePaul are women and 44.0% are men.
About 39.1% of the graduate students who attend DePaul are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. Americans aren't the only ones who appreciate the graduate programs at DePaul. Around 9.8% of graduate students are international. For more details on graduate school diversity at the school, check out the chart below. If you click on it, you'll be taken to a page with more details.
The average graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $17,951 | $17,951 |
| Fees | $390 | $390 |
After obtaining their master's degree from DePaul, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $60,953. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 4% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Doctorate degree recipients from DePaul earn an average salary of $93,105 during the early years of their career. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 24% higher than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of DePaul University.
Contact details for DePaul are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1 E Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60604 |
| Phone: | 312-362-8000 |
| Website: | https://www.depaul.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/DePaulUniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/DePaulU |
About 69.1% of the graduate students at DePaul University took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 42.5% of all grad students took courses exclusively online.
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
Just like the master’s degree programs, only programs that had doctorate degrees awarded in 2020-2021 are shown here.
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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